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pardo


(Spanish; “brown”)

In Venezuela, a person of mixed African, European, and Indian ancestry. In the colonial period, pardos, like all nonwhites, were kept in a state of servitude, with no hope of gaining wealth or political power. Nevertheless, most pardos remained royalists during much of the war for independence because they relied on Spain for protection in their conflicts with the Venezuelan-born whites, toward whom the European Spaniards took a superior attitude. In Brazil a pardo is a person of mixed European and African descent.



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The royal edict was meant to erase discrimination against expositos and was applied to the entire empire; whereas peninsulars had little to lose with the presumption that babies born in Seville or Burgos were white and the progeny of legitimate union, the scenario was different in the new world where pardos and mulatos were hardly welcomed into the upper echelons of society, Local law and practice chipped away at the order, with racial and other prejudices prevailing even over the royal decree.
Whichard, [dagger] [dagger] Vartul Sangal, [section] Laetitia Fabre,* Aurelia Delaune,* Maria Pardos,* Yves Millemann, [paragraph] Emmanuelle Espie,# Mark Achtman, [section] ** Patrick A.
9 Men's way of making women their object of desire is also present in the work: the first thing calling Octavio's attention is Andrea's body: "Andrea, a sus treinta y siete anos, tiene un cuerpo de adolescente y perfecto, y sus ojos pardos expresan la inmensidad, la paz y el misterio de un mar en calma.
 
 
 
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